Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at... Wikipedia
Born: 1933 (age 91 years), Constantine, Algeria
Notable students: Serge Haroche, Jean Dalibard, and Claude Fabre
Academic advisor: Alfred Kastler
Awards: Institute of Physics Awards (1979), Ampère Prize (1979), Lilienfeld Prize (1992), and more
Children: 3
Fields: Physics
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